The Optimization on Transport Modes for China Coal Corridor Based on the Dynamic Programming

Author

Liang, Lv ; Qi, Xu ; Zhihong, Jin

Author_Institution

Coll. of Transp. Manage., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

5-6 June 2010

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

106

Abstract

Coal is one of the main energy sources and the carriage of coals is inevitable in China. How to choose the modes between each cities is one of the key factors that decide the quality of the coal carriage. A model for that problem was formulated to be a mixed integer programming problem at first. Then, a Dynamic Programming algorithm was proposed to obtain the optimal combination strategy of transport modes. The corresponding program was designed based on MATLAB and implemented on a personal computer. Finally, a real life problem was solved to show the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed model and algorithm.

Keywords

coal; goods distribution; integer programming; transportation; vehicles; China coal corridor; MATLAB; coals carriage; dynamic programming; energy sources; mixed integer programming problem; optimal combination strategy; optimization; personal computer; transport modes; Costs; Dynamic programming; Educational institutions; Heuristic algorithms; Industrial engineering; Logistics; MATLAB; Mathematical model; National security; Transportation; Dynamic Programming; coal transit; combinatorial optimization; transport modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering (CCIE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4026-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIE.2010.144

Filename

5491913